My name is Catherine Wong but you can call me C.W. Everyone calls me that. I was born and raised in the City of Xiamen in the Chinese Province of Fujian. Recently I moved to the City of Ottawa in the Canadian Province of Ontario. There are lots of Chinese folks in Ottawa but it's a very different world from what I'm used to. I attend the University of Ottawa and work part-time as a grocery store clerk to pay some bills. Life here is quite complex. People think they know who you are simply because of how you look. As a six-foot-tall, chubby and big-bottomed Asian chick, I'm expected to excel in school and have a sycophantic admiration and inexplicable attraction for White guys. Well, that's not how my life turned out.
Ever since I could remember, I've had a fascination for Black men. Among the North American professionals who came to teach English at Chinese schools were Black guys from Canada and America. Some Chinese folks found them strange but they appealed to me. I found them...fascinating. And that fascination didn't go away. Even back in Xiamen, I had posters of NBA superstars like Lebron James, Rajon Rondo, Kobe Bryant and Hollywood stars like Will Smith, Lee Thompson Young and Denzel Washington on my bedroom wall. I simply found Black guys hot. When I came to Ottawa, I was finally able to explore this fascination I've had for years. My preference for Black men kind of shocked the Asian ladies at the University of Ottawa, eighty percent of whom only dated White guys.
Well, I guess that's where I differed from the other Asian girls at the University of Ottawa. I've met White guys in the People's Republic of China and I've met plenty of them in the Confederation of Canada. I found them dull, boring and insecure. And most of them were bigoted in some way. It's not their fault. They think being Caucasian makes them God-like and that the world belongs to them. Never mind that the Caucasian population of the world is shrinking by leaps and bounds. I mean, take a look at the birth rates of the demographics of New Zealand, Australia, America, Canada and Europe. They're on a sharp decline. I think the future masters of the world are places like China, India, Brazil and South Africa. Countries with booming economies and growing populations. In the twenty-first century, new powers are rising. North America and Europe will be dethroned. It's a mathematical certainty. Trust me, I'm a business major. I know what I'm talking about.
In one of my classes, I met a fascinating young Black man named Adler Jean-Baptiste. Over six feet tall, dark and handsome. Very dark. A proud son of the City of Cap-Haitien in the Republic of Haiti. At the heart of the Caribbean. Adler is the recipient of an international scholarship. He's taking up business administration at the University of Ottawa. I took one look at this sexy Black stud and decided I just had to have him. Unfortunately, there was a language barrier. I speak Chinese and English fluently. Adler only speaks French and Haitian Creole. He doesn't speak a lick of Chinese or English. I remedied the situation by taking a French class as a linguistic elective. A French class he happened to be in. Funny how that happened. The first day, I sat next to Adler and introduced myself. And I made sure to keep him conversationally occupied as the other ladies in the class took their seats. There were nineteen women and eleven men in the class. Ten White women, three Asian women, two Aboriginal women and four Black women. Among the men, five were White, two were Hispanic, one was Asian and one was Black. Most of the guys looked chubby and ugly, and some were even balding even though they're in their twenties. The only good-looking guy in our entire class was Adler. He kind of reminds me of that actor from that television series The Famous Jet Jackson.